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Russia’s Medvedev threatens to nuke US, UK, Germany, Ukraine if Russia loses occupied territories (kyivindependent.com)
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"Attempts to restore Russia's 1991 borders will lead only to one thing - a global war with Western countries with the use of our entire strategic (nuclear) arsenal against Kyiv, Berlin, London, and Washington. And against all other beautiful historic places that have long been included in the flight targets of our nuclear triad," Medvedev said in a reference to the triad of intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers with nuclear weapons.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Call. The. Bluff.

Russia has been bluffing for decades. Neither their nukes nor their delivery systems work after 50 years of being "maintained" by notorious black market scalpers.

The end of the menace is possible. Call the bluff.

[–] Lividpeon@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Inspected and fully functional as of 2021 via the joint inspection program with the US that RU has since backed out of.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think those inspections were that thorough or comprehensive.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The inspections are to verify locations of warheads and delivery systems. They are not function tests. They do not verify fuel integrity, structural integrity, nav hardware functionality or any other critical function. They don't even check that all the components exist in the delivery system.

These parts (fuel, computer components, chassis components) are all valuable on the international black market. The scalpers who have, for decades, been the main sources for these commodities have been the poorly paid people who maintain these systems.

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